Children’s Literature Festival Peshawar

Posted on November 24, 2011
PESHAWAR Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Minister for Higher Education, Qazi Muhammad Asad said on Wednesday that a respectable position among comity of nations could not be achieved without making advancement in contemporary education and priority was needed for survival in modern world.He expressed these views as a chief guest in the inaugural session of two-day conference held under the auspices of Planning and Management Unit (PMU) at Archives Hall. The aims of conference was to deliberate on various proposals to reorganize and restructure the public sector colleges of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.The ceremony was attended by Secretary Higher Education, Farah Hamid, Additional Secretary, Khalid Khan, Director Ghulam Qasim Khan, Tariq Sahibzada of PMU, leading educationist and principals of major colleges.The Minister said the torch bearer of peace, Baacha Khan had made an unprecedented struggle for the establishment of literate society and stressed on educationist and teachers to utilize their professional skills for bringing revolutionary changes in educational system and implement their proposals in true sense for further enhancing educational standards.A special task force of highly qualified education professional would soon be formulated for furnishing suggestions to revamp the educational edifice with productivity, he maintained.He urged teachers to utilize their professional abilities for giving exemplary status to educational institutions and focus character building strategies for students for preparing them to meet challenges of modern world.Speaking on the occasion, the Secretary Higher Education Farah Hamid said the government was giving special focus to higher education and are constructing new colleges to bolster education ratio and provide quality education to children and youth (thefrontierpost)

Literary beginnings Children’s Festival Lahore

Literary beginnings Children’s Festival starts tomorrow
LAHORE: More than 50 speakers and authors, including a few from India, will participate in the two-day Children’s Literature Festival, scheduled to begin on November 25.
The festival will be held at Children’s Library Complex and is being held in collaboration the Foundation Open Society Institute, US Consulate Genral and the British Council.
Ameena Saiyid of the Oxford University Press said, during a press conference, that the event promised two days of fun filled learning for children.
Saiyid said that the festival will also include sessions for adults as well.
Dr Arifa Syeda, and the ambassadors of the Children’s Literature Festival including Nadia Jamil and Adeel Hashmi were also present at the press conference. Dr Syeda narrated a few Urdu stories for the children present at the press conference.
Hashmi called the festival “the first step towards inculcating the habit of reading in children”. Jamil, Hashmi and Sania Saeed will judge a dramatic reading competition during the festival.


Kamini Masood, a grade 10 student at the Lahore Grammar School and the festival’s young ambassador, said that she hoped that the event will help children in improving their expression.

Baela Raza Jamil of the Idara-e-Taleem-o-Aagahi said that the chief minister, who is expected to inaugurate the festival, will also read to the children.
The Children’s Literature Festival will go on for two days from 10 am to 5 pm at the Children’s Library Complex.
There will be a book fair, live puppet shows, story telling, creative writing, poetry recitals and other interactive activities for children.
Dr Marilyn Wyatt, the wife of US Ambassador to Pakistan Cameron Munter, is expected to read from Tom Sawyer on the first day of the festival while Nigar Nazar will draw cartoons forthe children.
A play Jungle Jungle Zindabad, about preserving the environment, and a musical narrative, conducted by Ali Noor and Ali Hamza of Noori band in collaboration with Valerie Kaul, a teacher at the Lahore American School, will also be performed.
Express Tribune, November 24th, 2011.